An elegy on the much lamented death of the ingenious and well-belov'd Aquila Rose, clerk to the honourable assembly at Philadelphia, who died the 24th of the 6th month, 1723, aged 28

Name:

Keimer, Samuel, 1688-1742; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Timespan:

18th century

Date:

1723

Language:

English

Provenance:

Valentino, Carmen D. (former owner) (RBC copy); Hazard, Samuel, 1784-1870 (former owner) (RBC copy); Hazard, Maria Percy (former owner) (RBC copy)

Publisher:

Printed and sold by S. Keimer ..

Relation:

The Rosengarten Family Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366323

Subject:

Rose, Aquila, 1695-1723; Printed ephemera -- Pennsylvania -- 18th century -- Specimens; Printed ephemera

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Specimens; Broadsides -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 40 x 32 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

"Composed directly in type (without intervening recourse to pen and paper) by Philadelphia's most eccentric printer-poet (Samuel Keimer) about the city's second most famous journeyman (Aquila Rose, poet and secretary to the Assembly) and worked off by the city's most famous printer and man of letters (Benjamin Franklin)."--C.D. Valentino, Samuel Keimer's Elegy on the death of Aquila Rose (Philadelphia: Carmen D. Valentino, 2000), p. 1. Franklin's contribution to the printing of the Elegy is recorded in his Autobiography; cf. Campbell, p. 10-11.; Imprint date from Sabin.; Broadside (horizontal chain lines).; Text printed in double columns within a mourning border.; Woodcut headband: "Unrecorded memento mori, 3.1 x 23.5 cm., entirely unknown outside of its use in this broadside. May have been cut by Keimer's first employee, Benjamin Franklin"--C.D. Valentino, Samuel Keimer's Elegy on the death of Aquila Rose, p. 4.; Text begins: What mournful accents thus accost mine ear ...; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.; RBC copy: For a full description of this copy, see C.D. Valentino, Samuel Keimer's Elegy on the death of Aquila Rose (Philadelphia: Carmen D. Valentino, 2000), p. 4.; RBC copy has in lower right-hand margin ms. calculation in pencil "in the hand of Pennsylvania historian Samuel Hazard (1784-1870) ... figuring the broadside to be 105 years old in 1828."--C.D. Valentino, Samuel Keimer's Elegy on the death of Aquila Rose, p. 4.; RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2015 from Carmen D. Valentino.; RBC copy formerly owned by Samuel Hazard and housed by him in a scrapbook with spine title: Views & portraits Philada. (For a description of the scrapbook and its other contents, see record for Ms. Coll. 1257) Cf. C.D. Valentino, Samuel Keimer's Elegy on the death of Aquila Rose, p. 9.; RBC copy formerly owned by Maria Percy Hazard (later Veitch; 1828-1919). Cf. C.D. Valentino, Samuel Keimer's Elegy on the death of Aquila Rose, p. 9.; RBC copy has some small tears mended along previous folds; portion of head margin torn off (with minor damage to headband) and mended with a blank leaf.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Curtis Collection, Mapcase X48

Collection:

Rosengarten Family Fund